UNAPOLOGETIC: born to shine & Festivaleröffnung

Opening of the 14th Rampenlichter Festival & UNAPOLOGETIC: born to shine

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Ceremonial opening of the 14th Rampenlichter Festival

Greetings from Marek Wiechers, Head of Cultural Affairs, and city councillors Mo Lüttig (Greens Munich) and Barbara Likus (SPD)

With former and current festival artists

Moderation: Representatives of the youth team

afterwards

UNAPOLOGETIC: born to shine

Am I beautiful and does it even matter?
A dance piece about beauty norms, pop culture and queer self-empowerment. The piece shows how ideals of beauty influence our queer self-image and our (self-)presentation. These norms are often used to exclude certain groups.

The dancers explore the topic in two ways: from the outside through clothing and self-presentation, and from the inside through their personal approach to their own bodies. Gradually, these perspectives merge. The dancers shed external expectations and show themselves as they really are - honest, vulnerable and self-determined.

The queer teenagers and young adults rehearsed weekly for six months under the guidance of queer professional stage performers - discussing the subject matter, learning various movement tools and developing choreographies. There was a group of amateur dancers in each of the cities of Basel, Zurich, Bern and Lucerne who rehearsed separately and then came together for the intensive rehearsal week in the form of a camp in August. During this week, all the amateur dancers from all the cities got to know each other and the various elements they had worked on were put together to form a piece. In the 50-minute piece, queer amateur dancers dance together with professional performers and form an ensemble of 38 people in total.

The project was created in collaboration between the FLUX crew company and the lila. queer festival. We celebrated the premiere at the lila. queer festival in September 2024.

Recommended for ages 12 and up

Notes on the piece:
- rapid changes of light
- Loud and sudden noises
- fog
- pyrotechnics

Information and further notes on the play at rampenlichter.com/unapologetic